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George Francis Temple

George Francis Temple was born about 21 May 1888 in Fairview, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the third child of Francis Marion Temple and his wife Cynthia. He married about 1914, in California, to Gertrude Krieger, a native of Illinois. By 1917/8 he was living in Pasadena, California where he was a bookkeeper for Southern California Edison. By 1930 he was a Bank Manager.

He and his wife had two children including the future-actress Shirley Temple.

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Gertrude Amelia Krieger

Gertrude Amelia Krieger was born Jul 15, 1893 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, the oldest child of Otto Krieger and his wife Maude McGrath. Otto died, at age 44 on Jun 16, 1908 in Los Angeles County, California. Maude as a widow is next found, with her children Gertrude and Ralph in the 1910 census of Los Angeles County, California. Ralph did something, currently unknown, to land himself in San Quentin Prison by 1918, and then in the Los Angeles County Jail in 1920. Gertrude married George Francis Temple about 1914 having several children including Shirley Temple. In 1930, Maude, Gertrude's mother, in living with the family.

Gertrude died Jan 1, 1977, in Santa Clara County, California, although her last residence was in Redwood City, San Mateo County.

"Shirley Temple's Mother Dies", Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California), 3 Jan 1977 : [snippets] "[byline] Palo Alto...died at a local hospital...her husband George was with her when she died...[she was] native of Chicago...64th wedding anniversary...husband and daughter both of Woodside...sons John S Temple of San Pedro and George F Temple Jr of Laguna Hills; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren....Mrs Black...now chief of protocol at the State Department...."

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Francis Marion Temple

Francis Marion Temple was born Aug 4, 1850 in Crawford County, Pennsylvania to Reuben Smith Temple and his wife Jane W Dunham. He married Cynthia Yeager by 1880 and by 1880 they are living in Mercer, Pennsylvania.

They lived in Fairview, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1888 when his son George Francis Temple was born there on 21 May 1888. Mr Temple died 17 Jun 1896, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. His wife appears as a widow with her four children in Erie County, Pennsylvania in 1900; the youngest child is then six years old.

He is buried at Rundells Cemetery, Conneautville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

Otto Julius Krieger

Otto Julius Krieger was born about 1864 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Otto married on Jun 15, 1892, in Cook County, Illinois to Maude McGrath. By 1900 the family had moved to Los Angeles, California where Otto died, at age 44 on June 16, 1908 in Los Angeles County, California.